Do you need someone to be your own private North Korean-style hacker? ArsTechnica suggests checking out Hackers List: One recent post on Hacker’s List, a site dedicated to matching up hackers with those who need something hacked,…

I’ve been hooked on the various salacious disclosures from the hack attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment. Reading what studio executives really think of their star actors and producers is better than TMZ…

via Take Part: The hacktivist collective hacked the Ku Klux Klan’s Twitter account after the white supremacists threatened Ferguson protesters. Participants of one group wear hoods, while members of the other cloak…

This week: The Big Dog is off the chain, yeah that’s right, Ken’s hosting again. That’s really all you need to know….no?…ok, this week we discuss The latest activistprank from the Yes Men, New moons and hipsters, Hack your face!, Kim’s analogue dream tape, Stuff, The weirdness of Mandella’s interpreter, Brazilian football is Smash TV, Nintendo gayness, and Florida’s cache of medieval weapons.

Via Forbes, a video from a Defcon conference presenter who hacked his E-ZPass and found that his car’s location was being tagged continuously while he drove through New York City:

He hacked his RFID-enabled E-ZPass to set off a light and a “moo cow” every time it was being read. Then he drove around New York. His tag got milked multiple times on the short drive from Times Square to Madison Square Garden in mid-town Manhattan…and also on his way out of New York through Lincoln Tunnel, again in a place with no toll plaza.

At Defcon, where he presented his findings, Puking Monkey said he found the reading of the E-ZPass [in non-toll situations] “intrusive and unsettling.”

The Kernel recalls a particularly strange episode in British broadcasting history: An evening when an “alien” named “Vrillon” took over the airwaves: Via The Kernel: As Andrew Gardner read out news of…

The presentation was scheduled for hacker conference DEFCON: Via Reuters: Well-known hacker Barnaby Jack has died in San Francisco, a week before he was due to show off techniques for attacking implanted…

The future is hazardous. Technology consultant Jay Freeman discusses unlocking your Google Glass and describes what will happen when your pair is (inevitably) hacked: Once the attacker has root on your Glass,…